Draft Decision for the Council of Labour and Defence on“Algemba”[1]

Written:Written April 15, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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Setup a Commission of

2StatePlanning Commission2 oilmen or fuel men2 Chief Oil Board2 railway engineers ascertain within 2 weeks

1)whatpart of the Algemba railway work has been carried out;

2)dittothe pipeline;

3)inparticular’ present provision of rails and pipes, and the
prospects of full provision;

4)thepossibility of supplying fresh water to the Emba oilfields and
other conditions for ensuring work on the Emba;

5)checkcomparative cost of delivering oil to the centre via
Rakushi-Astrakhan by waterway and via Saratov by railway and pipeline;

6)possibleand probable terminal date of Algemba railway and pipeline
construction;

7)possibility,probability and cost of acquiring and delivering extra
river and sea craft for the transportation of oil from the Emba via
Rakushi-Astrakhan;

8)gointo other aspects of the problem.

[1]Algemba-Russianabbreviated name of the Alexanclrov-Gai-Emba branch
line and oil pipeline construction project, which was to connect the Eniba
oilfields with the Urals and Saratov. This draft decision was endorsed by
the C.L.D. on April 15, 1921. On April 29 the C.L.D. passed a decision
suspending construction of the pipeline in view of the fact that its
remoteness entailed heavy expenditure on, the delivery, of materials,
machinery and food, and on May 6 decided to switch the Alexandrov-Gai-Emba
railway construction from accelerated to ordinary tempo.